We've updated the Markdown editor – the environment for writing texts which are longer than a tweet. The update introduces markup highlighting, full-screen mode, media embedding and other almost invisible yet important features, all for improving the writing experience and simplifying the complicated process of transferring thoughts on the screen.

Brand storytelling helps leading etailers stand out from the competition and gain an enthusiastic following among today’s consumers. In this guide, we take a page from their content marketing playbook and show you how to build a digital lookbook in four straightforward steps.

A few months ago we built the first version of ÜberSchnell at the ecomhack 2015. ÜberSchnell is a one-tap shopping experience for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG). The app enables users to buy products from their smart watch, based on their location, with a single tap of their Apple Watch.

We've released an integration with Getty Images, which enables editors to search, browse and copy images from the Getty Images collection to their Contentful media storage – all within the Contentful web app.

We've heavily reworked the content type editor in the Contentful web app. The overall goal of this update is to make editorial content teams more productive by giving them better tools to set up the content structure and customize the interface for the writing experience.